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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7435196, member: 101855"]The term “colonial coins” is a bit misleading. Anything that was issued during the Articles on Confederation period, like the Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York copper coins, are not “colonial coins” because the U.S. was no longer a colony. The Vermont coppers were sort of a “nationhood” issue because Vermont was not a state and yet had its independence. You could call these coins “confederates” although that term would be confusing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Virginia half penny was sort of a watershed coin. The British made it to circulate in the Virginia colony, but it was issued at the time the Revolutionary War was about to start. Collectors mostly know about the hundreds of Mint State pieces that came from the famous hoard, but circulated examples are known too.</p><p><br /></p><p>The late Herb Silberman, who was one of the founders of the Early American Coppers Club, once told me that American colonial coins could be most anything that is listed in a catalog of European coins from the 16 and 1700s. All of those pieces probably made their way here at some point. British coins of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I (late 1500s and early 1600s) have been unearthed at the Jamestown, Virginia site. Those coins were used here and could called “colonials.”</p><p><br /></p><p>I will post some pictures of the coins I mentioned when I can get on my desktop computer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 7435196, member: 101855"]The term “colonial coins” is a bit misleading. Anything that was issued during the Articles on Confederation period, like the Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York copper coins, are not “colonial coins” because the U.S. was no longer a colony. The Vermont coppers were sort of a “nationhood” issue because Vermont was not a state and yet had its independence. You could call these coins “confederates” although that term would be confusing. The Virginia half penny was sort of a watershed coin. The British made it to circulate in the Virginia colony, but it was issued at the time the Revolutionary War was about to start. Collectors mostly know about the hundreds of Mint State pieces that came from the famous hoard, but circulated examples are known too. The late Herb Silberman, who was one of the founders of the Early American Coppers Club, once told me that American colonial coins could be most anything that is listed in a catalog of European coins from the 16 and 1700s. All of those pieces probably made their way here at some point. British coins of Queen Elizabeth I and King James I (late 1500s and early 1600s) have been unearthed at the Jamestown, Virginia site. Those coins were used here and could called “colonials.” I will post some pictures of the coins I mentioned when I can get on my desktop computer.[/QUOTE]
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